Dates: 25-30 May 2010.

Being a history buff Berlin was a must-go destination.

The Berlin TV Tower:

A random modern art fountain:

A more traditional alternative:

The Marx-Engels-Forum (public park) in the Mitte district. Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Liz:

The Lustgarten park:

St. Hedwig’s Cathedral on Bebelplatz:

The famous neoclassical Brandenburg Gate:

Platz der Republik on Tiergarten with the Reichstag looming behind:

Entrance to the Reichstag:

On the roof of Germany’s parliament building:

Mirrors inside the dome make for some odd pictures:

Memorial to the murdered members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic:

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, near the Reichstag:

Sections of the Berlin Wall are on display around the city accompanied by historical information:

The so-called “Checkpoint Charlie” has been preserved:

A plate marking the years the wall was in existence:

More sections of the wall:

Around the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church on Tauentzienstraße:

The Urania World Clock on Alexanderplatz:

The Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park:

Berlin’s Olympiastadion:

Konzerthaus Berlin (concert hall) on Gendarmenmarkt:

Dusk over Berlin:

The Rotes Rathaus is the town hall of Berlin, located on Rathausstraße:

It was on the fourth day in the city that we started “collecting” Berlin’s bears…:

One of the many building facades sporting bullet holes made during WWII:

The German Resistance Memorial Centre on Stauffenbergstrasse:

It was here that Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and the other members of the failed 20th of July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler were executed.

Sections of the Berlin Wall have been placed alongside the river Spree and have been uniquely graffitied:

The Oberbaum Bridge over the Spree:

More bears!:

The war memorial in the Großer Tiergarten park:

Panoramic views from up the Berlin TV Tower:

Berlin Cathedral looming high over the Spree:

Not just bears:

The Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Memorial) commemorates the division of Berlin and the deaths that occurred there. The wall stretches 60 metres:

Berlin is a fantastic city, full of parks, history, great food and excellent beer. It’s hard to imagine I’ll not go back at some point in the future.